Assigning Active Directory account policies to Active Directory user account and Active Directory groups
If several account policies are assigned to one user account, the actual account policy is found using specific rules. If there are no special account policy the domain setting apply. Refer to the concept of fine-grained password guidelines under Active Directory in the documentation for your Windows Server for information about the calculation rules.
To specify account policies for user accounts
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In the Manager, select the Active Directory > Account policies category.
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Select the account policy in the result list.
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Select in the Assign user accounts task.
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In the Add assignments pane, assign the user accounts.
TIP: In the Remove assignments pane, you can remove assigned user accounts.
To remove an assignment
- Save the changes.
To specify account policies for groups
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In the Manager, select the Active Directory > Account policies category.
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Select the account policy in the result list.
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Select the Assign groups task.
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In the Add assignments pane, assign the groups.
TIP: In the Remove assignments pane, you can remove the assignment of groups.
To remove an assignment
- Save the changes.
Editing the synchronization project for an Active Directory domain
Synchronization projects in which a domain is already used as a base object can also be opened in the Manager. You can, for example, check the configuration or view the synchronization log in this mode. The Synchronization Editor is not started with its full functionality. You cannot run certain functions, such as, running synchronization or simulation, starting the target system browser and others.
NOTE: The Manager is locked for editing throughout. To edit objects in the Manager, close the Synchronization Editor.
To open an existing synchronization project in the Synchronization Editor
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In the Manager, select the Active Directory > Domains category.
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Select the domain in the result list.
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Select the Change main data task.
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Select the Edit synchronization project task.
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Monitoring the number of memberships in Active Directory groups and Active Directory containers
Table 28: Effective configuration parameters
TargetSystem | ADS | MemberShipRestriction | Container |
Number of Active Directory objects allowed per container before warning email is sent. |
TargetSystem | ADS | MemberShipRestriction | Group |
Number of Active Directory objects allowed per group before warning email is sent. |
TargetSystem | ADS | MemberShipRestriction | MailNotification |
Default mail address for sending warning emails. |
A mechanism to monitor user account memberships to limit the number of members in groups and containers,
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The ADSAccountInADSGroup and ADSAccounttables are monitored with respect to the number of user account memberships in a group and the number of user accounts in a container.
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The ADSContactInADSGroup and ADSContact tables are monitored with respect to the number of contact memberships in a group and the number of contacts in a container.
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The ADSGroupInADSGroup and ADSGroup tables are monitored with respect to the number of contact memberships in a group and the number of groups in a container.
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The ADSMachineInADSGroup and ADSMachine tables are monitored with respect to the number of computer memberships in a group and the number of computers in a container.
NOTE: The primary groups of Active Directory objects are not taken into account when membership per group is calculated.
Thresholds are set using configuration parameters. If the values in the parameters are exceeded, a warning message is sent to a defined mail address. The warning is only generated the first time the threshold is exceeded. This prevents warnings being send to the given address each time the threshold is exceeded, which could occur during synchronization for example.
Example: Monitoring group memberships
The threshold value for the number of objects in a Members group is limited to ten members (TargetSystem | ADS | MemberShipRestriction | Group=10). The Members group currently contains ten user accounts. When an 11th user account is added, a warning is generated and sent by email to the given address. When further user accounts are added, however, no more warning emails are sent.
Active Directory container structures
Containers are represented by a hierarchical tree structure. The containers that already exist can be loaded from the Active Directory environment into the One Identity Manager database by synchronization. System containers, which are entered into the One Identity Manager database are labeled correspondingly.
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